Prologis has delivered a logistics facility in Almere, the Netherlands, that can run largely independently of the power grid.
The 23,000-square-meter building operates on a renewable-first microgrid that combines rooftop solar, battery storage and emergency backup power. With only 55 kilowatts of grid capacity available — short of typical industrial needs — Prologis designed and implemented a system that increases available power roughly sevenfold to about 400 kilowatts.
The system prioritizes locally generated solar energy, stores excess power in batteries and activates a gas generator when needed. A secondary backup unit powered by a renewable diesel made from waste oils and other sustainable feedstocks ensures reliability up to 99.9 percent.
Prologis said the facility was constructed in one of Europe’s most grid-constrained regions. Although Almere is only one of many affected areas, it is now one of the first where a practical soluti
